[Reader-list] Body scanning violation of Sharia

[Tara Prakash]

Yes, of course. Troublesome word is "everyone" though.

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> Although almost everyone in the west is debating the pros and cons of
> the full-body scanning (see the link at the bottom), but as soon as
> the Deoband issues a fatwa against this, everyone in India will
> condemn the fatwa and support the body-scanning as the best security
> measure.
>
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> Body scanning violation of Sharia: Darul Uloom
> Pervez Iqbal Siddiqui, TNN, 16 February 2010, 05:42am IST
>
> LUCKNOW: Supporting the fatwa issued by the Fiqh Council of North
> America (FCNA) against use of full-body scanner for security checks
> for access to high security areas, country’s well-known Islamic
> seminary Darul Uloom, Deoband, too expressed serious reservations
> about such a practice as per the Sharia.
>
> Vice-chancellor of the seminary, Maulana Abdul Khalik Madrasi on
> Monday approved of the FCNA ruling on grounds that such screening of
> human bodies was in gross violation of the Islamic law both for men as
> well as women.
>
> Be it the full body screening (FBS) or any other technology on the
> same lines, such things are totally against the Sharia. “It is like
> exposing yourself in nude in front of others,” Maulana Abdul Khalik
> told reporters in Muzaffarnagar. He was replying to a question on
> whether the FCNA fatwa was in line with the Sharia or not. “Haya
> (modesty) is an extremely important element of human life in Islam.
> Properly covering the human body — that of both, men and women — can
> help to check a number of untoward situations like eve-teasing,”
> Maulana Khalik said. “Such things can be allowed only and only if it
> comes up to be a matter of life and death,” he added.
>
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/Body-scanning-violation-of-Sharia-Darul-Uloom/articleshow/5578311.cms
>
> Airport body scanners: European readers' views
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8506103.stm
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